tag:infodancer.org,2017-12-08:/weblog/atom/TriggerFingerInfodancer Atom Toolkit2019-08-09T05:15:07ZDetails of Clinton aides immunity agreements releasedhttps://triggerfinger.org/weblog/entry/30214502019-08-09T05:15:07Z2019-08-09T05:14:24ZTriggerFingermatthew@triggerfinger.orghttp://triggerfinger.org/weblog/
We knew the general scope of these agreements, and that they were structured to avoid exposing Hillary's emails to FOIA, and included clauses requiring the FBI to destroy evidence, but <a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/274484/new-evidence-unveils-disturbing-facts-about-deborah-weiss">the agreements themselves are now public</a>.
McCabe, Strzok sue ... alleging politically motivated firinghttps://triggerfinger.org/weblog/entry/30396112019-08-09T05:14:51Z2019-08-09T04:50:18ZTriggerFingermatthew@triggerfinger.orghttp://triggerfinger.org/weblog/
It's hard to believe these lawsuits (<a href="https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2019/08/06/former-fbi-agent-peter-strzok-files-lawsuit-against-doj-and-fbi/">Strzok</a>, <a href="https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2019/08/08/andrew-mccabe-files-federal-civil-lawsuit-against-doj-and-fbi-claims-trump-carried-out-unconstitutional-plan-against-him/">McCabe</a>) will have any merit after what the IG report has said about them and their behavior. McCabe already features prominently in one report that described him as "lacking candor" (ie, lying) to the IG, and both he and Strzok were major players in the Hillary email investigation (yes, another IG report on that topic) plus the currently unreleased report in progress on FISA abuse. These two should feel lucky they aren't in jail; instead they are suing...<br/><br/>But they have a reason, and I think I know what it is. If there are indictments coming down for them, as part of the IG's report, they'll need money for lawyers. Probably they have already found lawyers and have been prepping for this. Suing for unlawful termination is a useful move to prepare the battlefield in the media and invite a future jury to view any prosecutions through a political lens.<br/><br/>More importantly, with the lawsuits comes the ability to open up a gofundme account for "legal expenses" that will probably flow to the same lawyers preparing to defend them from criminal charges. And it's a lot easier to get people to donate to your lawsuit over "unlawful termination" than over your defense against criminal charges of lying, leaking, and spying.<br/><br/>It may also be useful as a shield against media inquiries when the IG report is released (as in "I can't comment on pending litigation").
This is what obstruction of justice looks likehttps://triggerfinger.org/weblog/entry/26987092019-06-07T12:44:46Z2019-06-17T06:47:21ZTriggerFingermatthew@triggerfinger.orghttp://triggerfinger.org/weblog/
<fieldset><legend><a href="https://www.judicialwatch.org/press-room/press-releases/judicial-watch-fbi-docs-show-notes-about-meeting-with-intelligence-community-inspector-general-about-clinton-emails-are-missing-and-cd-containing-notes-is-likely-damaged/">Judicial Watch</a></legend>Judicial Watch announced today that the FBI released 277 pages of redacted records in response to a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit that show the FBI failed to produce information from an August 2015 meeting with Intelligence Community Inspector General about Hillary Clinton&#x0092;s email server. The FBI claimed that notes are &#x0093;missing&#x0094; and the CD containing notes from meeting is likely &#x0093;damaged&#x0094; irreparably.</fieldset><br/>The CD was cracked... almost as if <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/how-hillary-clinton-aide-destroyed-phones-2016-9">someone had smashed it with a hammer</a>.
FBI failed to document witness interviews in Clinton casehttps://triggerfinger.org/weblog/entry/26987002019-06-03T21:47:36Z2019-06-08T06:31:06ZTriggerFingermatthew@triggerfinger.orghttp://triggerfinger.org/weblog/
<fieldset><legend><a href="https://saraacarter.com/fbi-failed-to-document-four-clinton-witnesses-barr-should-reopen-clinton-probe/">Sara Carter</a></legend>The FBI failed to document at least four interviews of witnesses in the bureau&#x0092;s investigation into former presidential candidate Hillary Clinton&#x0092;s use of a private server to send classified emails, according to documents obtained by the government watchdog Judicial Watch.<br/><br/>Judicial Watch also discovered among the 218 pages of emails between former FBI Special Agent Peter Strzok and his paramour former FBI Attorney Lisa Page that then FBI General Counsel James Baker had instructed &#x0093;FBI officials to expedite the release of FBI investigative material to Hillary Clinton&#x0092;s lawyer, David Kendall in August 2016. Kendall and the FBI&#x0092;s top lawyer discussed specifically quickly obtaining the &#x0093;302&#x0094; report of the FBI/DOJ interview of Mrs. Clinton.&#x0094;</fieldset><br/>Why bother interviewing if you aren't going to document the interview so you can potentially use it later?<br/><br/>Obviously because they had no intention of using it later.
Obama administration complicit in Clinton email FOIA coveruphttps://triggerfinger.org/weblog/entry/25939012019-05-13T06:47:20Z2019-05-13T06:47:20ZTriggerFingermatthew@triggerfinger.orghttp://triggerfinger.org/weblog/
<fieldset><legend><a href="https://www.judicialwatch.org/press-room/press-releases/judicial-watch-records-obtained-in-court-ordered-discovery-reveal-obama-white-house-tracking-foia-request-for-clinton-emails/">Judicial Watch</a></legend>Judicial Watch announced today that it obtained 44 pages of records from the State Department through court-ordered discovery revealing that the Obama White House was tracking a December 2012 Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request seeking records concerning then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton&#x0092;s use of an unsecure, non-government email system. Months after the Obama White House involvement, the State Department responded to the requestor, Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW), falsely stating that no such records existed.</fieldset><br/>We've known for some time that Obama knew personally about Clinton's private email server; we know because they sent emails back and forth. Which means Obama's claims to have found out about it from the news are a transparent lie. But now, we have proof that the Obama White House knew about the FOIA requests for Clinton's emails and was watching those requests closely. That means any violations in the State Dept response to those FOIA requests implicate the White House.<br/><br/>That Obama is a liar is not news. That he may have participated in or even orchestrated the coverup puts members of his administration in legal jeopardy. Probably not at real risk of conviction, but it's definitely going to put some heat on any officials who put anything in writing about the coverup.<br/><br/>
FBI "lost" notes of Hillary email security breachhttps://triggerfinger.org/weblog/entry/25733642019-05-12T02:12:10Z2019-05-12T08:47:20ZTriggerFingermatthew@triggerfinger.orghttp://triggerfinger.org/weblog/
<fieldset><legend><a href="https://www.theepochtimes.com/fbi-lost-notes-from-clinton-probe-meeting-significant-to-concerns-over-foreign-exfiltration-lead_2912428.html">Epoch Times</a></legend>The FBI lost notes from a 2015 meeting with people from the office of the Intelligence Community Inspector General (ICIG), according to newly released FBI records on the investigation of former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton&#x0092;s alleged mishandling of classified information.<br/><br/>The ICIG-FBI meetings hold special significance because it was allegedly several of these meetings where the ICIG officials passed a lead to the FBI about anomalies in the metadata of the emails indicating that a copy of nearly every email was sent to an agent of a foreign power.</fieldset><br/>"Lost" is being generous. The person who took the notes claimed they were turned over to the person supposed to enter them into the system. And they would have exposed Hillary's email server as not just being a security <em>risk</em> but an actual security breach, sending literally all her private server email to a foreign power. <br/><br/>So they were not lost.<br/><br/>They were destroyed.<br/><br/>Or, as Hillary puts it, <em>wiped with a cloth</em>.
Clinton cronies starting to see legal trouble from Mueller investigationhttps://triggerfinger.org/weblog/entry/22823662019-03-24T22:29:43Z2019-03-24T20:05:56ZTriggerFingermatthew@triggerfinger.orghttp://triggerfinger.org/weblog/
<fieldset><legend><a href="https://pjmedia.com/trending/clinton-obama-attorney-greg-craig-snagged-in-mueller-probe/">PJMedia</a></legend>Former Obama White House counsel and Clinton impeachment attorney Greg Craig may soon be indicted by the Justice Department for engaging in illegal unregistered overseas lobbying, Fox News reported Tuesday. Craig appears to have been caught up in special counsel Robert Mueller's long-running investigation into possible collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia.<br/><br/>If charged, Craig would be the first Democrat to face prosecution in Mueller's Russia probe, according to Fox.Mueller referred the Craig case to New York federal prosecutors, as it fell outside his mandate. New York prosecutors subsequently forwarded the case to the Justice Department in Washington, D.C., where a final decision on charges is reportedly imminent.<br/><br/>According to Fox, New York prosecutors are also mulling charges against another Clinton crony, Tony Podesta.</fieldset><br/>Interesting. I wonder why these were just sitting there until very recently?
Page says DOJ drove decision not to indict Clintonhttps://triggerfinger.org/weblog/entry/22555162019-03-18T07:47:31Z2019-03-18T07:47:31ZTriggerFingermatthew@triggerfinger.orghttp://triggerfinger.org/weblog/
They drove it by excluding "gross negligence" as a factor, despite that being in the law as written. Page's testimony here contradicts Comey's dramatic speech clearing Clinton, as well as AG Lynch's claim she would let the FBI make the decision after her improper meeting with William Clinton. <a href="https://victorygirlsblog.com/lisa-page-doj-no-charge-clinton/">A little more detail here</a>.
Conflicted DOJ set the intent standard for Clinton email casehttps://triggerfinger.org/weblog/entry/21860512019-02-26T14:03:45Z2019-02-28T06:47:21ZTriggerFingermatthew@triggerfinger.orghttp://triggerfinger.org/weblog/
The FBI, including Comey in his infamous speech exonerating Clinton of crimes she <em>almost</em> admitted to, have long tried to take the blame for the decision to decline to file charges. But the intent standard -- which does not match applicable law, which requires only <em>gross negligence</em> -- was <a href="https://www.theepochtimes.com/exclusive-doj-prevented-fbi-from-pursuing-gross-negligence-charges-against-clinton_2815097.html">apparently set by the DOJ</a> after all.
This is what obstruction of justice looks likehttps://triggerfinger.org/weblog/entry/21129032019-02-11T18:28:42Z2019-02-12T07:47:19ZTriggerFingermatthew@triggerfinger.orghttp://triggerfinger.org/weblog/
<a href="https://www.judicialwatch.org/press-room/press-releases/judicial-watch-fbi-general-counsel-talked-to-hillary-clintons-lawyer-about-comeys-letter-on-weiner-laptop-clinton-emails/">Judicial Watch uncovered more emails and testimony from DOJ and FBI officials</a> concerning the Clinton emails found on Weiner's laptop. Specifically, that Clinton lawyer David Kendall immediately (within hours) contacted FBI General Counsel James Baker when news of the letter to Congress notifying them of the email search broke.<br/><br/>The email contained "requests" and Baker conveyed a meeting within 24 hours to discuss it. The people Baker notified were: Comey, associate Deputy Director Bowdich, assistant director for national security Steinbach, assistant director for counterintelligence Priestap, Comey's chief of staff Rybicki, analyst Moffa, assistant director (acting) Herring, assistant director for public affairs Kortan, deputy general counsel Trisha Anderson, and of course the two lovebirds Strzok and Page. If I remember correctly, this was the week before the election.<br/><br/>There was in fact a conference call scheduled among those people as a result, and of course, Comey issued another letter two days before the election "clearing" Clinton. There are multiple lies documented, including Strzok lying that no new classified emails were found on the laptop. A lie by omission, as well, as they had only examined approximately 3,000 of the 340,000 emails on the laptop.<br/><br/>The emails obtained also document an offer of a quid pro quo: more funding for FBI positions in return for downgrading the reason for redacting released material to "from classified to something else."<br/><br/>We don't know what happened in that conference call, but we know the results: Comey's second letter falsely claiming to exonerate Clinton two days before the election, the examination of the laptop was halted pretty much immediately (long before the contents could be properly examined), and, of course, the return of Strzok, Page, and the rest of the conspirators to looking desperately for dirt on Trump as an insurance policy.<br/><br/><a href="https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2019/02/11/judicial-watch-uncovers-email-between-clinton-lawyer-david-kendall-and-fbi-lawyer-james-baker-same-day-fbi-was-forced-to-re-open-investigation/">More analysis here</a>.
CONFIRMED: Every email Hillary sent was cc'd to a foreign addresshttps://triggerfinger.org/weblog/entry/20366602019-01-30T16:37:26Z2019-02-01T08:47:19ZTriggerFingermatthew@triggerfinger.orghttp://triggerfinger.org/weblog/
<fieldset><legend><a href="https://www.theepochtimes.com/exclusive-fbi-ignored-major-lead-on-clinton-emails-closed-door-testimonies-suggest_2782019.html">Epoch Times</a></legend>Congressional investigators have gathered enough evidence to suggest that the FBI, under the Obama administration, ignored a major lead in the Clinton-email probe, according to transcripts of closed-door testimonies of several current and former bureau officials.<br/><br/>The office of the Intelligence Community Inspector General informed the FBI in 2015 that a forensic review of Hillary Clinton&#x0092;s emails unearthed anomalies in the metadata of the messages. The evidence in the metadata suggested that a copy of every email Hillary Clinton sent during her tenure as the secretary of state was forwarded to a foreign third party.</fieldset><br/>The FBI ignored this, even though they knew of it during the investigation into Clinton's email server. Strzok, in particular, knew about it while he was on the investigation and then told Congress he didn't remember it.
Clinton Foundation whistleblowers testify to Congresshttps://triggerfinger.org/weblog/entry/18022332019-01-30T06:47:20Z2019-01-30T06:47:20ZTriggerFingermatthew@triggerfinger.orghttp://triggerfinger.org/weblog/
<fieldset><legend><a href="https://saraacarter.com/financial-bounty-hunters-testify-clinton-foundation-operated-as-foreign-agent/">Sara Carter</a></legend>The Clinton Foundation operated as a foreign agent &#x0091;early in its life&#x0092; and &#x0091;throughout it&#x0092;s existence&#x0092; and did not operate as a 501c3 charitable foundation as required by its and is not entitled to its status as a nonprofit, alleged two highly qualified forensic investigators, accompanied by three other investigators, said in explosive testimony Thursday to the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee.<br/><br/>John Moynihan and Lawerence W. Doyle, both graduates of the Catholic Jesuit College of the Holy Cross and former expert forensic government investigators, gave their shocking testimony before congress based on a nearly two year investigation into the foundation&#x0092;s work both nationally and internationally. They were assisted by three other highly trained experts in taxation law and financial forensic investigations. The forensic investigators stressed that they obtained all the documentation on the foundation legally and through Freedom of Information Request Acts from the IRS and other agencies.</fieldset><br/>I'm convinced that a lot of the fairly intense legal attention directed at Trump is basically a negotiation process. The Clintons and Obamas see investigative activity closing in around their foundation and their areas of involvement in SpyGate, and they encourage their allies and co-conspirators within the FBI and Mueller's office to strike back by opening new investigations into Trump, or coercing new guilty pleas from his associates, and so on. The implied promise is that if Trump backs off, so will they. <br/><br/>But I think SpyGate crossed a line. You can't use the FBI and NSA as your opposition research team and get away with it.
Summarizing and Contrasting Spygatehttps://triggerfinger.org/weblog/entry/18022182019-01-04T07:47:18Z2019-01-04T07:47:18ZTriggerFingermatthew@triggerfinger.orghttp://triggerfinger.org/weblog/
<fieldset><legend><a href="https://www.nationalreview.com/2018/12/mueller-probe-fisa-warrants-fbi-informants/">National Review</a></legend>Robert Mueller&#x0092;s legal team may write a damning report on Trump&#x0092;s ethics, based mostly on flipping minor former business associates of Trump&#x0092;s and transient campaign officials by threatening them with long prison sentences...<br/><br/>In the subsequent 18 months, Robert Mueller assembled a highly partisan team of lawyers and investigators that included a number of Clinton donors; lawyers who had represented either the Clinton Foundation, a Clinton aide, or an Obama official; and rank anti-Trump partisans such as Lisa Page and Peter Strzok. Their task was to investigate the charges of Russian collusion as planted by those in government and Christopher Steele and his abettors.<br/><br/>Such skullduggery poses the question of whether Mueller&#x0092;s investigation has been simply derailed by partisanship. Or has it effectively served as a deliberate distraction from the felonious behavior of dozens of Obama-administration and Clinton-campaign officials &#x0097; all determined to ensure, by any means necessary, that Trump would never be president?</fieldset><br/>If you can pin down a liberal over the holidays long enough to make them read one article about Spygate, this might be a good choice.
Red State thinks Trump will be impeachedhttps://triggerfinger.org/weblog/entry/18022142018-12-11T07:40:52Z2019-01-02T08:47:18ZTriggerFingermatthew@triggerfinger.orghttp://triggerfinger.org/weblog/
The <a href="https://www.redstate.com/streiff/2018/12/10/president-trump-going-impeached-question-much-damage/">idea</a> is that Cohen's payments to two bimbos were technically campaign contributions intended to influence the election rather than to shut them up to prevent generic reputational damage to Trump's marriage. Looked at objectively, that's somewhat flimsy, and charging a campaign finance violation like that as a felony is almost unprecedented. As potential felony charges, these could be treated as the basis of impeachment by the now-Democrat House. And of course there is huge demand for impeachment, stoked and stroked for two years now by the media and the Deep State on both sides of the political aisle.<br/><br/>But the Senate is extremely unlikely to convict and remove. Democrats would need 20 GOP votes in the Senate, and it seems unlikely they will get that. Any GOP member voting to remove a Republican president can expect enough of his base to stay home in the next election to doom him, even if they have to wait a few years. There would be dramatic losses among those up in the next election, even if they voted against, simply as a matter of getting to who you can get to. Within the Republican party it would mark the transition from a cold war of paperwork and politics for control of the party to an open party split.<br/><br/>So what's really going on?<br/><hr><a href="https://triggerfinger.org/weblog/entry/1802214?utm_source=atom">(Read More)</a>
Three Clinton Foundation whistleblowershttps://triggerfinger.org/weblog/entry/17534742018-12-27T08:47:20Z2018-12-27T08:47:20ZTriggerFingermatthew@triggerfinger.orghttp://triggerfinger.org/weblog/
<fieldset><legend><a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/clinton-foundation-whistleblowers-have-come-forward-with-hundreds-of-pages-of-evidence-meadows-says">Fox News</a></legend>Three people have come forward with hundreds of pages of evidence of potential wrongdoing by the Clinton Foundation, including misappropriation of funds and allegations of quid-pro-quo promises made to donors during Hillary Clinton's tenure as secretary of state, Rep. Mark Meadows, R-N.C., told Fox News on Thursday.<br/><br/>Meadows, the leader of the conservative House Freedom Caucus, is also the chairman of the House Oversight Subcommittee on Government Operations. The panel is set to hold an investigative hearing next week on the status of the Foundation case.</fieldset><br/>The FBI only raided one of them that we know of. I wonder what the others know?
Comey testifies, part 2https://triggerfinger.org/weblog/entry/18322152018-12-19T06:58:25Z2018-12-20T07:14:43ZTriggerFingermatthew@triggerfinger.orghttp://triggerfinger.org/weblog/
<a href="https://www.scribd.com/document/395972408/James-Comey-Congressional-Interview-Part-Two">Transcript here</a>. You may be interested in <a href="https://triggerfinger.org/weblog/entry/1792401">my take on the first day of testimony</a> and <a href="https://triggerfinger.org/weblog/entry/1832209">Comey's media interview after talking to Congress</a>.<br/><br/>Detailed comments below the fold. My overall impression is that we, again, lost out by having this held in a public forum. Comey can hide behind that to avoid answering important questions. He can also hide behind the Mueller investigation. I'd like to see this all public, but getting there requires investigators to be able to ask about classified things so the answers can then be declassified. <br/><br/><p align="center"><img src="http://triggerfinger.org/images/weasel.png" /></p><hr><a href="https://triggerfinger.org/weblog/entry/1832215?utm_source=atom">(Read More)</a>
Judicial Watch gets discovery over Hillary's email serverhttps://triggerfinger.org/weblog/entry/17534682018-12-19T08:47:18Z2018-12-19T08:47:18ZTriggerFingermatthew@triggerfinger.orghttp://triggerfinger.org/weblog/
<fieldset><legend><a href="https://www.judicialwatch.org/press-room/press-releases/federal-judge-opens-discovery-into-clinton-email-usage/">Judicial Watch</a></legend>Judicial Watch announced today that, in a ruling excoriating both the U.S. Departments of State and Justice, U.S. District Court Judge Royce C. Lamberth has ordered both agencies to join Judicial Watch in submitting a proposed schedule for discovery into whether Hillary Clinton sought to evade the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) by using a private email system and whether the State Department acted in &#x0093;bad faith&#x0094; by failing to disclose knowledge of the email system. The decision comes in a FOIA lawsuit related to the Benghazi terrorist attack.</fieldset><br/>It's hard to know what they are likely to find after all this time. Hillary would be in real trouble if we could read her mind.
Why it's time to fire Rosensteinhttps://triggerfinger.org/weblog/entry/17534662018-12-18T08:47:18Z2018-12-18T08:47:18ZTriggerFingermatthew@triggerfinger.orghttp://triggerfinger.org/weblog/
<fieldset><legend><a href="http://thefederalist.com/2018/12/04/10-reasons-time-fire-rod-rosenstein/">The Federalist</a></legend>On Thursday, Fox News reported that Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein received prior notice of former Donald Trump private attorney Michael Cohen&#x0092;s plea deal before Acting Attorney General Matthew Whitaker did.<br/><br/>Rosenstein seems like an affable guy who continuously demonstrates his wickedly dry humor with ironic speeches claiming fealty to the rule of law. But his mere presence in the Department of Justice is now demonstrably undermining its change in leadership. That the special counsel first checks in the deputy attorney general before the AG proves Rosenstein is still in charge.</fieldset><br/>Mueller cannot accept Whitaker as his boss and still complete the tasks he was given as special counsel. The real tasks, that is: keeping the attention on Trump and off of the Clintons' and Obama's malfeasance with our intelligence agencies and other crimes. So, of course he's going to report to Rosenstein first for as long as he can do so. <br/><br/>And that means Rosenstein has to go. Read the whole thing; there are 9 more reasons to fire Rosenstein immediately.
Comey talks to the media following second testimonyhttps://triggerfinger.org/weblog/entry/18322092018-12-18T09:21:56Z2018-12-18T07:56:54ZTriggerFingermatthew@triggerfinger.orghttp://triggerfinger.org/weblog/
Comey testified to Congress for the second time today. He talked to the media afterwards. We should get a transcript sometime soon.<br/><br/>He says he was asked about "which form people filled out". This is either a reference to the 302s about the Flynn interview, or the procedures necessary to initiate a sensitive political investigation (which he previously admitted to not knowing or following).<br/><br/>He admits that he "took a decision away from Sally Yates" to avoid the appearance of political bias, which is the same reasoning he used when announcing that he would not recommend prosecuting Clinton himself (because Lynch was compromised by the tarmac meeting and other, unspecified, information). He says he did this "to make it necessary for Trump to burn down the entire FBI to stop the investigation" and was shocked that Trump was willing to do just that. He seems to think he is acting in a completely non-partisan manner and all his actions, no matter how improper or obviously partisan, are above reproach. It's disgusting.<br/><br/>Asked if he takes any responsibility for the hit the reputation of the FBI has taken, he blames Trump for "lying". That's bullshit; Comey was at the head of the agency while it behaved in a nakedly partisan manner to influence the Presidential election in 2016. Blaming Trump for the actions in which Trump was a victim is absurd, and he wasn't in office for the Clinton investigation.<br/><br/>He blames others and says they should be ashamed for being silent. This is the man who said he couldn't remember or didn't know under oath over 200 times.<br/><br/>He's "proud" of the way the FBI interviewed Flynn, despite admitting previously he "took advantage" of the chaos in the incoming administration.<br/><br/>He won't comment on whether the memos he leaked were classified. Of course not. That would embarrass him. <br/><br/>Guess what, Comey? You are a weasel who does weasel things.<br/><br/><p align="center"><img src="/images/weasel.png" alt="weasel" /></p><hr><a href="https://triggerfinger.org/weblog/entry/1832209?utm_source=atom">(Read More)</a>
Clinton answers to Judicial Watch on her email systemhttps://triggerfinger.org/weblog/entry/18022402018-12-19T06:57:37Z2018-12-15T06:47:20ZTriggerFingermatthew@triggerfinger.orghttp://triggerfinger.org/weblog/
<fieldset><legend><a href="https://www.judicialwatch.org/press-room/press-releases/hillary-clinton-files-new-answers-under-oath-about-email-system-used-it-for-the-purpose-of-convenience/">Judicial Watch</a></legend>Subject to and without waiving the forgoing objections, Secretary Clinton answers as follows: As Secretary Clinton prepared in late 2008/early 2009 to serve as Secretary of State, she was aware that President Clinton&#x0092;s office had set up an e-mail system, but she had no role in this process. Secretary Clinton knew that President Clinton&#x0092;s staff had recently upgraded that system. Secretary Clinton does not know what equipment that system used, how it was created, who decided that the system needed to be upgraded, or who else had accounts on the system. Secretary Clinton believes that one of the President&#x0092;s aides, Justin Cooper, set up the system. Secretary Clinton decided to use a clintonemail.com account on the system for the purpose of convenience. Secretary Clinton recalls that the clintonemail.com account was created in early 2009. Although Secretary Clinton does not have specific knowledge of the details of the creation of the account, the &#x0093;domain,&#x0094; or the &#x0093;domain name,&#x0094; her best understanding is that Mr. Cooper set it up.</fieldset><br/>She's claimed to have used it for "the purpose of convenience" before, which (considering it gets to her state of mind) might be hard to disprove. But there are likely to be some emails buried within the system (hers, State Dept's, or both) with people asking her about why she is using it instead of a normal State.gov account. We've seen some, and how brutally she shut down those questions. <br/><br/>A determined prosecutor should be able to leverage her attorney's obvious-in-hindsight lie about 90 to 95 percent of her emails being in the State's system (via her writing to people at State) to get her attorneys to flip. If they really want to. I doubt anyone at DOJ really wants to.
Comey Interview (Part 1)https://triggerfinger.org/weblog/entry/17924012018-12-08T21:22:08Z2018-12-08T21:22:08ZTriggerFingermatthew@triggerfinger.orghttp://triggerfinger.org/weblog/
<a href="https://oversight.house.gov/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Comey-interview-transcript-12-7-18_Redacted-1.pdf">Transcript here</a>. My comments below the fold.<br/><hr><a href="https://triggerfinger.org/weblog/entry/1792401?utm_source=atom">(Read More)</a>
Gowdy nails Comey on Clinton's intenthttps://triggerfinger.org/weblog/entry/17924102018-12-08T21:15:45Z2018-12-08T21:15:45ZTriggerFingermatthew@triggerfinger.orghttp://triggerfinger.org/weblog/
Remember, Comey argued Clinton couldn't be prosecuted because evidence of guilt was missing. But Clinton immediately moved to delete her emails as soon as she was subpoena'd by Congress for them. That's evidence of guilty intent.<hr><a href="https://triggerfinger.org/weblog/entry/1792410?utm_source=atom">(Read More)</a>
Nunes calls for more declassified emailshttps://triggerfinger.org/weblog/entry/16670602018-11-24T06:47:20Z2018-11-24T06:47:20ZTriggerFingermatthew@triggerfinger.orghttp://triggerfinger.org/weblog/
<fieldset><legend><a href="https://saraacarter.com/nunes-calls-for-declassification-of-emails-that-prove-information-withheld-from-fisa-court/">Sara Carter</a></legend>House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes (R-CA) told Fox News&#x0092; Maria Bartiromo yesterday that he wishes to see a &#x0093;fourth bucket&#x0094; of emails declassified, saying it would reveal evidence that the Department of Justice and FBI withheld information from the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC).<br/><br/>Nunes said the first of three &#x0093;buckets&#x0094; were Russia-related documents which President Trump&#x0096;after calling for their release&#x0096;had to backtrack on after Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein intervened and suggested the Inspector General review them first.<br/><br/>&#x0093;The new fourth bucket that we&#x0092;re asking to be declassified now is &#x0097; for months we have been reviewing emails between FBI, and DOJ, and others that clearly show that they knew about information that should have been presented to the FISA court,&#x0094; he said. &#x0093;So it is real evidence that people within the FBI withheld evidence from the FISA court.&#x0094;</fieldset><br/>The more information we can get into the public domain about this the better.
Lame-duck Congress subpeonas Comey and Lynch over Hillary probehttps://triggerfinger.org/weblog/entry/16670592018-11-23T08:47:20Z2018-11-23T08:47:20ZTriggerFingermatthew@triggerfinger.orghttp://triggerfinger.org/weblog/
The fact that they waited to issue these subpoenas until after they lost the election is an indication that they weren't taking them seriously in the first place.<br/><br/><a href="https://saraacarter.com/house-committee-subpoenas-comey-lynch-over-botched-hillary-probe/">Comey demanded there be a public hearing </a>-- which would of course prevent him for talking about anything related to classified information, a shield he could and would hide everything behind.<br/><br/>The dates are November 29th and December 5th.
Hillary to be required to answer questions under oathhttps://triggerfinger.org/weblog/entry/16363552018-11-15T16:32:45Z2018-11-16T08:15:13ZTriggerFingermatthew@triggerfinger.orghttp://triggerfinger.org/weblog/
<fieldset><legend><a href="https://www.lifezette.com/2018/11/hillary-clinton-must-answer-key-email-questions-federal-judge-orders/">Lifezette</a></legend>A federal judge ordered former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to answer five questions she has avoided for years about her use of a private email server to conduct official U.S. diplomatic business.<br/><br/>U.S. District Court Judge Emmett Sullivan on Wednesday gave Clinton 30 days to respond under oath to five questions.</fieldset><br/>I don't really care what Hillary does at this point in her life, <em>except</em> that she's indicated she intends to run again in 2020. And if she intends to try to evade recordkeeping laws and FOIA laws in the same way she did as SecState, that's a problem.
Bongino interviews Papadopouloshttps://triggerfinger.org/weblog/entry/15368002018-11-03T09:13:02Z2018-11-05T10:26:12ZTriggerFingermatthew@triggerfinger.orghttp://triggerfinger.org/weblog/
<a href="https://bongino.com/ep-842-a-preview-of-whats-ahead/">Setup and background show</a><br/><a href="https://bongino.com/the-george-papadopoulos-interview-youve-been-waiting-for/">Interview</a><br/><br/>What follows is my own summary of key information from the interview, but I urge you to listen to the whole interview at a minimum.<br/><br/>George was working (unknowingly) for an CIA-FBI front group. His employers set up the meeting with Mifsud (the supposed Russian agent) in a facility in Rome used to train western intelligence agents. The person who set up the meeting is the FBI's chief legal counsel in the UK. The people introducing Mifsud's companion as "Putin's niece" (she's not) were Director-level positions at the center, meaning they are all in the scheme.<br/><br/>George speculates (based on two news sources contacting him to ask about it) that there was a FISA warrant on him. That would be an explosive bombshell revelation, because we have only heard about the FISA warrant on Carter Page so far.<br/><br/>George describes traveling to Israel and being arrested and interrogated about social media campaign influence in the US. "Arrested" is perhaps an understatement; he said he was afraid for his life. (These were the people who gave him $10K intended to entrap him on returning to the US; George also suspects the bills were marked). <br/><br/>George describes a number of people offering him money and introducing him to women ("honeytraps"). One of them offered him $30K/mo and an office in New York... if he worked simultaneously for the Trump administration. That guy set up a lot of behavioral red flags and was recording the conversation. Papadopoulos refused the offer.<br/><br/>One of the honeytraps is named "Azra Turk" (a Turkish national). George suspects she is a CIA or western intelligence asset rather than FBI, which would also expand the scandal. <br/><br/>George describes a number of times when he was probably recorded, at least one in a meeting with Halper, and refuses to cooperate and asks to be left alone. <br/><br/>George describes his meeting with Australian ambassador Downer. It also included Downer's "girlfriend" an Australian intelligence officer. It was not a chance meeting, it was orchestrated. And George thinks that conversation was being recorded, and says emails did not come up during that conversation at all. George says that is false. George also says neither of the participants were drunk (one drink each) and that it was not a friendly meeting.<br/><br/>George says there was someone inside the Trump campaign acting as a confidential source and probably feeding information out to the FBI. Congress knows who they are. Hopefully the rest of the world will find out soon as the truth of this whole operation comes out.
Trump may declassify requested FISA documentshttps://triggerfinger.org/weblog/entry/11547592018-09-05T15:05:14Z2018-09-06T16:49:39ZTriggerFingermatthew@triggerfinger.orghttp://triggerfinger.org/weblog/
I have a hunch that <a href="https://saraacarter.com/president-trump-may-declassify-the-20-fisa-docs-congress-wants/">this declassification process</a> is what prompted <a href="https://triggerfinger.org/weblog/entry/1150708">Mueller's public negotiation attempt</a>. Mueller's job (<a href="https://triggerfinger.org/weblog/entry/1154763">his real job</a>) is to protect Obama, the intelligence community, the law enforcement community, and the Clintons, probably in that order. (There's a non-zero chance Obama is actually just above the Clintons on Mueller's priority list; if that's the case Obama should be very worried). Mueller needs to protect them because they went way, way out on a limb to spy on Trump during the presidential campaign, and if the full extent of their interference is exposed, it could easily lead to outrage or even criminal charges.<br/><br/>Declassifying documents so the general public can see them renders the FBI attempt to protect those documents moot, and plants a massive egg on the face of everyone involved -- including the intelligence community actors who have so far received relatively little scrutiny, and possibly (if not in these documents, then in later batches) on the political actors. If Trump starts declassifying things, that opens a can of worms that probably can't be closed. All the schemes would be exposed and the information out in public. <br/><br/>That's good for Trump, assuming he's innocent of the Russian collusion charge. That's why Mueller has been desperately digging for something else he can use as leverage. He's nailed a few people for tax issues and rarely-used registration laws, flipped Michael Cohen for more tax issues and got him to plead to a probably-invalid campaign finance crime, but it hasn't given him any real leverage on Trump. And it's Trump he needs leverage on to avoid the declassification scenario.
Judicial Watch finds evidence review of laptop was not completehttps://triggerfinger.org/weblog/entry/11547572018-09-05T14:39:12Z2018-09-05T14:39:12ZTriggerFingermatthew@triggerfinger.orghttp://triggerfinger.org/weblog/
<fieldset><legend><a href="https://www.judicialwatch.org/press-room/press-releases/judicial-watch-new-fbi-records-reveal-strzok-authored-initial-draft-of-comey-letter-to-congress-notifying-them-of-clinton-emails-on-weiner-laptop/">Judicial Watch</a></legend>Judicial Watch today released 424 pages of FBI records, including an email revealing that recently fired FBI official Peter Strzok created the initial draft of the October 2016 letter then-FBI director James Comey sent to Congress notifying lawmakers of the discovery of Hillary Clinton emails on the laptop of disgraced former Congressman Anthony Weiner.<br/><br/><b>Another email suggests that the FBI had not yet completed its review of Clinton&#x0092;s emails by the time Comey sent a second letter to Congress</b> on November 6, 2016, reconfirming his belief that Hillary Clinton shouldn&#x0092;t be charged with a crime.</fieldset><br/>The big deal here is that Strzok initially ignored the evidence on the laptop, then (under pressure from mounting leaks about the existence of the evidence) Comey sent a letter to Congress purporting to clear Hillary of wrongdoing. The way the draft was written (indicating the review was not complete, but they could use the draft if the review supported the conclusions expressed) suggests that the outcome was preordained in a manner remarkably similar to Comey's original speech clearing Clinton. Unless there is a similar draft stating "We found all this new classified material, and Hillary is guilty as sin", then the FBI's bias is clear.<br/><br/>Of course, that bias has already been clear for some time, but this just piles more evidence on top.<br/><br/>I do wonder if the IG had access to this email when writing his report?
Imran Awan gets away with ithttps://triggerfinger.org/weblog/entry/10821512018-08-22T14:42:13Z2018-08-22T14:42:13ZTriggerFingermatthew@triggerfinger.orghttp://triggerfinger.org/weblog/
<fieldset><legend><a href="http://dailycaller.com/2018/08/21/imran-awan-no-jail-time-hospital/">Daily Caller</a></legend>A federal judge declined to give jail time to former Democratic IT aide Imran Awan Tuesday, saying he has &#x0093;suffered enough&#x0094; at the hands of politicians &#x0093;at the highest levels of government.&#x0094; In addition, the Department of Justice said it did not find any evidence that supported criminal charges.<br/>[...]<br/>The lawyer, former Hillary Clinton aide Chris Gowen, said Imran was motivated by love for his father, who was dying in Virginia when Imran flew to Pakistan. Imran, he said, was in a &#x0093;panic&#x0094; to get money to urgently build a charity hospital, described in court as a &#x0093;women&#x0092;s shelter.&#x0094; He described the urgent moves as &#x0093;securing his father&#x0092;s legacy.&#x0094;<br/></fieldset><br/>And this news drops the day after Cohen pleads and Manafort gets convictions? Bullshit. It's being deliberately buried. Just like the explanation here does not make any sense.<br/><br/>Imran will be allowed to go back to Pakistan with his family, <em>where no law enforcement in the US will be able to ask him what he knows about the Democratic National Committee email leak</em>.<br/><br/>And his lawyer is connected to the Clintons.
BOMBSHELL in the Clinton email investigationhttps://triggerfinger.org/weblog/entry/10070572018-08-05T04:40:48Z2018-08-04T10:24:30ZTriggerFingermatthew@triggerfinger.orghttp://triggerfinger.org/weblog/
Remember the laptop they found while investigating Weiner just a few weeks before the election in 2016? Remember that the laptop contained hundreds of thousands of Hillary emails (as pointed out by the people who found it initially, New York agents)? Remember how the FBI announced, just a few days before the election, that they had examined the laptop and found no new emails, so Hillary was still in the clear?<br/><br/>Apparently, buried in a document release, there is an admission that the FBI had not examined the laptop on November 9th... the day after the election. Which means... when they told the public right before the election that they had examined the laptop and not found anything new... <a href="https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2018/08/03/fbi-vault-release-fbi-requested-data-forensics-on-huma-abedin-clinton-laptop-after-the-2016-election-not-before/">they were lying</a>.<br/><br/>Given the number of emails on the laptop, based on those early reports before the DC office of the FBI got their hands on it, I would be very surprised if there were no new emails at all. Maybe nothing new that was criminal (or at least not immediately obvious as criminal). Maybe nothing new that was classified. But nothing new at all?<br/><br/>Obviously they didn't even bother to look, and now we have proof.<br/><br/>Another interesting point is that the document is a request by Strzok for the FBI's tech guys to examine Huma Abedin's laptop "for evidence of intrusion". By hackers, one presumes. That request has nothing to do with analyzing the emails on the laptop as they relate to the Hillary email investigation. "No evidence of intrusion" does NOT mean that the Hillary emails were secure, or that they did not contain any classified or criminal investigation. It just means no one hacked that particular laptop to get them.<br/><br/>And the final interesting point.<br/><br/><em>This contradicts Strzok's claims to the IG in his report</em>.<br/><br/>How did the FBI put it when McCabe was fired?<br/><br/><b>Lack of candor</b>.<br/><br/>UPDATE: <a href="https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-08-04/new-fbi-docs-reveal-agency-paid-steele-admonished-him-and-strzok-sat-weiner-probe">Zerohedge has highlighted the relevant sections</a>.<br/><br/>UPDATE: There's actually a second "successor" server. I think we knew this from when the email servers themselves were the scandal, not the investigation of them. The exact significance of the second server is unknown at this time.
IG Horowitz is a coverup artisthttps://triggerfinger.org/weblog/entry/9521062018-07-23T20:01:47Z2018-07-28T10:45:03ZTriggerFingermatthew@triggerfinger.orghttp://triggerfinger.org/weblog/
<fieldset><legend><a href="https://www.dailysignal.com/2018/07/22/the-clinton-state-departments-major-security-breach-that-everyone-is-ignoring/">Daily Signal</a></legend>Gohmert asked Strzok about his meeting in 2016 with Frank Rucker and Janette <br/>McMillan, an investigator and lawyer, respectively, for then-Intelligence Community Inspector General Chuck McCullough (an Obama appointee).<br/><br/>McCullough sent them to see Strzok, who was the FBI&#x0092;s deputy assistant director for the Counterintelligence Division, to brief him and three other FBI personnel about an &#x0093;anomaly&#x0094; that their forensic analysis had found in Clinton&#x0092;s server.<br/><br/>According to Gohmert, the inspector general discovered that, with four exceptions, &#x0093;every single one&#x0094; of Clinton&#x0092;s emails&#x0097;more than 30,000&#x0097;&#x0093;were going to an address that was not on the distribution list.&#x0094;<br/><br/>In other words, according to the information Gohmert received from the intelligence inspector general, something was causing Clinton&#x0092;s server to send copies of all of her email communications outside of the country &#x0093;to an unauthorized source that was a foreign entity unrelated to Russia.&#x0094;<br/><br/>One of the other disturbing bits of information that came out of this exchange was that, according to Gohmert, the Office of the Intelligence Community Inspector General called Michael Horowitz, the inspector general of the Department of Justice, &#x0093;four times&#x0094; because it wanted to brief Horowitz about this forensic analysis and this security breach. But, according to Gohmert, Horowitz &#x0093;never returned the call.&#x0094;</fieldset><br/>The fact that Horowitz refused to take calls on this casts his entire report into doubt. His job wasn't to fix the problems, it was yet another modified limited hangout. Drop the information already known, but keep the remedies in-house and out of course by refusing to admit to bias actually influencing anything even in the face of overwhelming evidence.
At update on Sharyl Attkisson's computer intrusion casehttps://triggerfinger.org/weblog/entry/7289212018-06-16T03:54:39Z2018-06-19T14:54:41ZTriggerFingermatthew@triggerfinger.orghttp://triggerfinger.org/weblog/
<a href="https://sharylattkisson.com/2018/06/15/attkisson-v-fbi-and-doj-for-computer-intrusions-update-in-15-easy-to-understand-parts/">Read the whole thing</a>. Disturbingly, she went to IG Horowitz -- the same man responsible for the recent IG report on the Clinton email investigation -- and he appears to be covering up the results of his investigation.
11 things to know about the IG reporthttps://triggerfinger.org/weblog/entry/7289182018-06-15T13:10:03Z2018-06-19T13:54:35ZTriggerFingermatthew@triggerfinger.orghttp://triggerfinger.org/weblog/
This is different from the story I recently linked containing 12 things to know about the IG report. Remarkably, both lists include different things. So there are at least 23 things to know about the IG report.<br/><br/><a href="http://thefederalist.com/2018/06/15/11-quick-things-know-inspector-generals-report/">Read the whole thing</a>.
Mark Meadows on IG reporthttps://triggerfinger.org/weblog/entry/7289032018-06-18T14:28:45Z2018-06-18T14:28:45ZTriggerFingermatthew@triggerfinger.orghttp://triggerfinger.org/weblog/
<fieldset><legend><a href="http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2018/06/14/mark-meadows-on-ig-report-rosenstein-must-be-held-accountable-for-his-obstructionist-conduct/">Breitbart</a></legend>&#x0093;Peter Strzok should not have a job anywhere near our Justice Department. Rod Rosenstein must be held accountable for his obstructionist conduct,&#x0094; the North Carolina conservative added. &#x0093;James Comey should come before Congress and answer for his deeply improper handling of this investigation.&#x0094;<br/><br/>Meadows concluded in his statement, &#x0093;After this report, it&#x0092;s clear we have a long way to go to restore the integrity of and public faith in our Justice Department. Americans deserve better than this.&#x0094;</fieldset><br/>We do, but what are the chances we get it?
Sailor convicted of classified info violation to sue Obama admin officialshttps://triggerfinger.org/weblog/entry/6821582018-06-16T10:50:24Z2018-06-16T10:50:24ZTriggerFingermatthew@triggerfinger.orghttp://triggerfinger.org/weblog/
<fieldset><legend><a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/31433/sailor-pardoned-trump-plans-sue-obama-comey-hank-berrien">Daily Wire</a></legend>A former Navy sailor who was prosecuted by the Obama Administration for taking photos of classified sections of the submarine where he served, and was later pardoned by President Trump, is taking aim at former President Barack Obama, former FBI director James Comey, and the Justice Department, suing them for treating him differently than they treated Hillary Clinton after she left classified information at risk.<br/><br/>As Fox News reports, Kristian Saucier served one year in prison after federal prosecutors argued he had endangered national security by taking photos of the submarine's propulsion system and reactor compartment and then obstructed justice by destroying a laptop and camera. Saucier claimed he wanted the pictures for service mementos. He was pardoned by Trump in March and plans to claim in his lawsuit that Obama and the other defendants treated him with unequal protection under the law.<br/><br/>Saucier's attorney, Ronald Daigle, told Fox News &#x0093;We&#x0092;ll highlight the differences in the way Hillary Clinton was prosecuted and how my client was prosecuted. We&#x0092;re seeking to cast a light on this to show that there&#x0092;s a two-tier justice system and we want it to be corrected.&#x0094;</fieldset><br/>He's not wrong. What the courts will do about it, though, I don't know.
Speaking of obstruction of justice...https://triggerfinger.org/weblog/entry/7278542018-06-15T05:49:55Z2018-06-15T05:49:55ZTriggerFingermatthew@triggerfinger.orghttp://triggerfinger.org/weblog/
<fieldset><legend><a href="https://saraacarter.com/ig-finds-fbi-agents-willingness-to-damage-trump-presidency/">Sara Carter</a></legend>A recently retired FBI agent, who spoke to this reporter on condition of anonymity due to the current nature of their work, said &#x0093;when Comey made his announcement four days after Lynch essentially recused herself from the investigation &#x0096; following the tarmac meeting with Bill Clinton &#x0096; he broke from 108 years of FBI protocols and regulations.&#x0094;<br/><br/>&#x0093;The FBI does not have the power to charge individuals or organizations with crimes,&#x0094; the former FBI official stated. &#x0093;FBI agents investigate potiential or suspected crimes and then provide checkable, proof based facts to DOJ prosecutors to allow the DOJ to make the decision to charge an individual based on the premise that they violated the law. The FBI cannot lawfully make that determination, even if the FBI Agent, in this case Comey, was previously a DOJ prosecutor. If any other FBI Agent has done what Comey did and not refer the case to DOJ to make a decision, that agent would be fired from their job and likely be charged with obstruction of justice.&#x0094;</fieldset><br/>Well, Comey was fired. He has not been charged with obstruction of justice. That we know of. Yet.
About that claim that decisions could not be linked to bias...https://triggerfinger.org/weblog/entry/7278532018-06-15T06:30:06Z2018-06-15T05:45:41ZTriggerFingermatthew@triggerfinger.orghttp://triggerfinger.org/weblog/
<fieldset><legend><a href="https://pjmedia.com/jchristianadams/ig-report-fbi-agent-said-trump-voters-poor-uneducated-lazy-pos/">PJMedia</a></legend>In connection with a discussion about how many people from the FBI and Department should be present during a potential interview of former Secretary Clinton, Page stated in a February 24, 2016 text message to Strzok, &#x0093;One more thing: she might be our next president. The last thing you need us going in there loaded for bear. ...<br/><br/>Page sent similar text messages to McCabe and another FBI employee around the same time, adding that having a larger number in the room &#x0093;is not operationally necessary&#x0094; and that &#x0093;[t]his is as much about reputational protection as anything.&#x0094;</fieldset><br/><fieldset><legend><a href="https://saraacarter.com/ig-finds-fbi-agents-willingness-to-damage-trump-presidency/">Sara Carter</a></legend>The Inspector General did not have &#x0093;confidence that Strzok&#x0092;s decision to prioritize the Russia investigation over following up&#x0094; on new evidence in the Clinton case &#x0093;was free from bias.&#x0094; Strzok was assigned to the Midyear investigation, a reference to Clinton&#x0092;s use of a private server, in August 2015. He was also &#x0093;responsible for supervising the investigation on a daily basis,&#x0094; according to the report. Page &#x0093;was named counsel to then Deputy Director Andrew McCabe in February 2016, and served as his liaison to the Midyear investigative team from February 2016 forward,&#x0094; according to Horrowitz.</fieldset><br/>It's like the executive summary and recommendations were written by different people than those investigating the facts... and the former were influenced by the same bias they are supposed to be investigating.
FBI agents assessed Clinton in her interview as impossible to believehttps://triggerfinger.org/weblog/entry/7278512018-06-15T02:16:31Z2018-06-15T02:00:28ZTriggerFingermatthew@triggerfinger.orghttp://triggerfinger.org/weblog/
<fieldset><legend><a href="https://twitter.com/stephenfhayes/status/1007338778531426304">Stephen Hayes quoting IG Report</a></legend>Witnesses told us, and contemporaneous emails show, that the FBI and Department officials who attended Clinton's interview found that her claim she did not understand the significance of the "(C)" marking stained credibility. Agent 1 stated, "I filed that in the bucket of hard to impossible to believe."</fieldset><br/>And yet Michael Flynn was hounded out of Washington, forced to sell his house, had his family threatened, and eventually pled guilty... while Clinton was publicly exonerated and her political opponent spied on.<br/><br/>[<a href="http://acecomments.mu.nu/?blog=86&amp;post=375711">Hat tip to Ace of Spades</a>]
FBI agent claims agents are biased, witness lied his ass off and won't be chargedhttps://triggerfinger.org/weblog/entry/7258632018-06-15T02:09:13Z2018-06-15T01:39:24ZTriggerFingermatthew@triggerfinger.orghttp://triggerfinger.org/weblog/
So, let me get this straight.<br/><br/>The agent who interviewed one of the people at Clinton's residence described their testimony thus: <em>First they never saw the SCIF. Then they looked in while it was being built. Then they removed the trash twice. Then they troubleshooted the secure fax with Hillary. Then they were there every time Hillary did a secure fax... even if he said the truth and didn't have a clearance when handling the secure fax -- ain't noone gonna do shit.</em><br/><br/>And he was right. No one gonna do shit.<br/><br/>Because the IG cannot connect the evidence of obvious bias to any specific investigative decision... because no one wrote down that they were making a specific investigative decision to screw Trump and elect Hillary. They didn't need to write it down. It was known. It was in the atmosphere. It was pervasive.<br/><br/>[<a href="http://acecomments.mu.nu/?blog=86&amp;post=375707">Hat tip Ace of Spades</a>]
Fake, but accuratehttps://triggerfinger.org/weblog/entry/7258622018-06-15T02:09:22Z2018-06-15T01:25:04ZTriggerFingermatthew@triggerfinger.orghttp://triggerfinger.org/weblog/
We found an email marked Secret on Hillary's email. And we know "foreign actors" obtained access to Hillary's emails, including the one marked Secret. And we know that Hillary's staffers' email accounts were also compromised. But no one followed up, and the exoneration speech by Comey had its wording changed to say it was "possible" foreign actors had accessed that email marked Secret -- instead of "likely".<br/><br/>But there's nothing to see here. No one needs to be held to account for failing to protect classified information even though a foreign actor is likely to have actually accessed that information, which would cause harm to national security.<br/><br/>Oh, and our man Peter Strzok, who was going to "stop" Trump from becoming President, was the one to change the wording of Comey's exoneration speech from "grossly negligent" (the legal standard defined in the law which the FBI is supposed to enforce) to "extremely careless".<br/><br/>But none of the obvious bias can be connected to specific investigative decisions, so it's all hunky-dory.<br/><br/>[<a href="http://acecomments.mu.nu/?blog=86&amp;post=375710">Hat tip to Ace of Spades</a>]
Fake, but accuratehttps://triggerfinger.org/weblog/entry/7258612018-06-15T02:09:34Z2018-06-14T15:49:53ZTriggerFingermatthew@triggerfinger.orghttp://triggerfinger.org/weblog/
IG: FBI offi0cials with no reason to have media contacts accepted bribes from reporters, including meals, tickets to sports events, golf outings, and invitations to private social events. But we won't prosecute anyone for taking bribes or leaking to the media, because that would create the appearance of impropriety. We can just sweep this under the rug with a good, solid slap on the wrist. Probably all these honest, hard-working FBI agents just need to be reminded that we have a policy that forbids bribery, leaking, and coup attempts.<br/><br/>[<a href="https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2018/06/14/ig-report-fbi-officials-accepted-bribes-from-media/">Hat tip to The Conservative Treehouse</a>]
Fake, but accuratehttps://triggerfinger.org/weblog/entry/7258602018-06-15T11:22:50Z2018-06-14T15:38:21ZTriggerFingermatthew@triggerfinger.orghttp://triggerfinger.org/weblog/
Clinton's $700,000 donations to Andrew McCabe's wife's campaign, making up more than 40% of her campaign's funds, created an appearance of impropriety, but because McCabe wasn't caught taking bribes to fix the Clinton email investigation until immediately before the election, we'll let him get away with it. This time.<br/><br/>And Kadzik really should have waited until after the investigation had completed the whitewash before trying to get his son a job with the Clinton campaign. That looked really bad.<br/><br/>And oops! McCabe should have stuck to his recusal after he recused himself, but he's not a Republican, so we won't charge him. This time. Maybe next time.<br/><br/>And Kadzik should have known that letting friends of the target of an investigation know that they are going to be questioned about it ahead of time would create an appearance of conflict, but it's only an appearance, not an actual conflict, so we're good so long as he adheres to the terms of his recusal after being caught. Except he didn't? Oh well, no big deal, right?<br/><br/>And [unidentified agent] was all "Viva le Resistance!" while working at the FBI, so he's resisting his boss.<br/><br/>And oh, by the way, the President communicated with Clinton via her insecure email server, using a pseudonym. But none of those emails were classified, because you can't charge the President with mishandling classified material; if he releases it by emailing it to Clinton on her insecure server, it's obviously no longer classified even if it gets sources killed and reveals methods.<br/><br/>And the President lied about it, of course. What, did you expect him to take responsibility for anything?<br/><br/>[<a href="http://ace.mu.nu/archives/375706.php">Hat tip Ace of Spades</a>]<br/><br/>UPDATE: I thought Viva le Resistance guy was Strzok, but it was an unidentified other agent.
Fake, but accuratehttps://triggerfinger.org/weblog/entry/7258592018-06-14T17:03:36Z2018-06-14T14:55:25ZTriggerFingermatthew@triggerfinger.orghttp://triggerfinger.org/weblog/
Page: "Please, my love, caress me and reassure me that Trump will never be my president."<br/><br/>Strzok: "Don't worry, my petunia. We'll stop him."<br/><br/>IG: "Because Strzok did not write down how, exactly, he would stop Trump becoming president, we cannot link this clear and obvious evidence of bias to any specific investigative act, therefore, no harm, no foul. However, we recommend a banner on all FBI-owned mobile devices reminding users they have no expectation of privacy while using them, to ensure such an embarrassing incident is never again revealed to the public."
IG report on Clinton email investigation out today at 3pmhttps://triggerfinger.org/weblog/entry/7199182018-06-14T09:39:49Z2018-06-14T09:39:49ZTriggerFingermatthew@triggerfinger.orghttp://triggerfinger.org/weblog/
<fieldset><legend><a href="https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2018/06/13/congress-and-potus-will-be-briefed-on-ig-report-noon-tomorrow-public-release-300pm/">The Conservative Treehouse</a></legend>Following the traditional process for releasing high-profile reports the Department of Justice &#x0096; Office of Inspector General (DOJ-OIG) report will be released tomorrow with a briefing to congress and the president happening around Noon, and a public release at 3:00pm. Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein will brief the President while senior officials from the DOJ will brief congress and their staff.<br/><br/>The 500-page report will cover the DOJ and FBI conduct surrounding the Clinton classified email investigation, and was originally commissioned during the Obama administration to review whether the FBI and DOJ politicized the Clinton investigation and subsequent outcome.</fieldset><br/>Open question: will the IG report blame the FBI for Clinton losing the election because they were biased against Clinton, or blame the FBI for Clinton losing the election because they were corruptly and obviously in the tank to clear her?